On the RUN

If you are an active person, thenyou wil ALWAYS run the risk of getting injured. Its basically impossible to say that you will never get hurt doing this thing or that thing. There is always tons of controversy on the things that ABSOLUTELY will or will not get you hurt. But thats not what this is about today. This is about what do you do if you do get hurt. Obviously, you need to give the injury some love and care when it just happens. Dont worry about trying to push through a basic everyday workout. Unless its a competition and you are willing to risk further injury, then just stop. Depending on what it is, you can use the tools like lacrosse balls, foam rollers, compression bands, etc to try to at least do an initial attack on it. From there you need to work with the inflamation that will occur. If you have a Marc Pro or a Compex machine, use it immeidiately. These are great to reduce inflammation and mellow out the injury in the muscles, etc. You can use ice or even ibuprofin if you need to. im not a fan of these but if you use them right away and only once or twice thenyou wont deal with the down sides of it as much. There are some pretty serious cons to each but again, the object is to attack the inflammation right away then get to other methods. After this, should you go back to the gym? I would say yes! Here is why: just because 10% of you body is injured doesmena the other 90% should suffer. We can and will be able to modify the workout or the movements based on what you have to deal with. Sure the injury might hurt but we will do everything we can to stay away from the use of it initially. Then we will graduate to light use, using even the PVC pipe to work normal range of motion without the crush of weight, and then we can move up from there. There may be some other things we will have you do dependingon the injury but the main point is that YOU CAN STILL BE HERE AND GET FIT AND HEAL ON THE RUN!!!! Dont lt your body suffer because a small percentage is hurt. You still have more to give some come and get it!!:)